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I have a huge soft spot for 'Kazoo' which I only know from that virgin ambient compilation, someday I'll steel myself and stock up on late 70's ashra Curiosum's a lot weirder & muted, most of the 'riffs' are completely abstract squiggles & even the straight keyboard melodies are all perfectly...

oh man I _love_ <i>Curiosum</i>. that one's total fuzzy wonder. Definitely a record that knew how to exploit lo-fidelity sound, and a definite Boards of Canada forerunner. Shiina Ringo samples a track from that on her second record, god help me. the only one from the classic period I'm a...

It'd have to wait until a good weekend to make some good vinyl digital transfers & do the proper de-noising, but would love to hear some of the François de Roubaix stuff... milton.parker@gmail.com

It's a Conny Plank masterpiece! I think it was the last thing they did together. You're right about <i>Geschenk</i>, no string quartet. Shouldn't have used the word 'ensemble' though that does loosely suggest the sound of the record -- I'd forgotten there were electronics on it at all, but I...

Goes without saying that <i>Durch Die Wuste</i> is the masterpiece. That should have been credited as Roedelius / Plank, but Conny's too modest. - <i>Lustwandel</i>: Like <i>Jardin Au Fou</i>: , also produced by Peter Baumann, but this one is far less electronic, more pastoral, lots of...

I love the first three selbstportrait albums so much. There was one summer during college where they were one of the only things between me and outright madness, they kept every disaster in perspective. The sense of humor on them is very helpful. They're such casual recordings, the way he...

the early videos are great. I recommend the 'Video Voodoo' compilation. Which is contained in its entirety on the 'Icky Flix' DVD, but broken up by really terrible recent films, and with the added distraction of a 2nd soundtrack of inferior recent re-recordings of the early songs. This band...

that video looks great! what a precise madman. a close cousin of 'strumming music' is terry riley's 'the harp of new albion' for just-intonation piano from the early 80's. riley's following from young, but I find myself playing the riley record more often. five star album, easy. palestine's...

been meaning to check out those early works on alga marghen. I've heard two extended works for pipe organ, sustained chords, liked them but did not keep them. majestic & brutal but also... easy? I'm all for being wasted but I also like the music to work when I'm sober & I'd already heard Jon...

>Hector Zazou's Baricade records (though I know nothing about them, please advise) I know even less about them, what have _you_ heard? I thought his first album was with ZNR, 'Barricade 3', does this mean there are two prequels? one movement from Luc Ferrari's Tautologos 3 might work, not to...

'a breaking up of musical time into smaller discrete units' is a very good way of putting it. once you put it that way, you can see the impact spreading far beyond contemporary orchestral & concrete, all the way to pop. it's interesting. it hadn't occurred to me but you're largely right...

thank you sir! this thread's showing up in google now, it's the only track listing on the web. always loved that rita mitsouko cover.

thanks to the source I like it! It's a lot more like the home-studio sounding synth & drum machines of the first ZNR record than the second chamber music one, only with even more mutant disco. Also very raw, no sign of the production sheen that would show up on 'Reivax au Bongo' & 'Noir et...

I really want to, I love early HZazou But the link is already expired. Help? milton.parker@gmail.com

'influence' probably not the best word for it, you're right. though there are direct chains like Russolo > Art of Noise/Trevor Horn > Keith Shocklee on record. My point had less to do with the direct influences and more to do with the fact that certain composers explored things that turned up...

to answer your question more specifically about 'wider audience', you're right, Schoenberg & Russolo's music never reached a wider audience, but I can hear the influence of Rossolo & concrete in modern pop. you can hear Ives' dissonant pan-tonality in hip hop created by layering two...

You might be right, but taken out of the past tense, & with hindsight, which manifesto seems to have better summed up the general course of 20th century music, & which is more relevant today; Schoenberg's "Composition With Twelve Tones" or Russolo's "The Art of Noises"? It's the latter. Yet...

I very much enjoyed Gann's post, & your response as well Tim. The anecdote about being confronted with a room full of baffled students who'd been skipped over their serialism classes was hilarious. And I almost hope things like that keep happening. Gann's comment about how lines of...

hey woebot, is the rest of that Risset +good (beyond 'Sud')? like $30 good? 'cause that's what it'd cost me: http://www.electrocd.com/cat.e/ina_c_1003.html can barely get past the first disc of Archives GRM, so many tracks I had absolutely no clue about are so much better than I was prepared for

just got my copy of Archives GRM in the mail. deserves it's own thread and a week to digest, but this and a glass of macallan is the rest of my night... (the Messiaen is brutally simplistic & relentless but at the same time, it's got something, though you can see why he didn't pursue.)...